"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
It certainly is everywhere, but seems to be more concentrated in some areas.
For example, the Illinois state legislature. Dimocrats in the afore mentioned body have attacked a proposal for a regional minimum wage that's lower in downstate Illinois than in Chicago: "But, Democrats who want a 15-dollar-minimum-wage in the state say people shouldn’t be punished for living outside the Chicago-area."
Huh. And here I thought it was the people living inside the Chicago area that were being punished.
"The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism." -George Orwell
Albert Einstein founded the German Democratic Party, had become Nazi Germany's Public Enemy #1 by 1933 (time.com/Einstein-England), and published "Why socialism?" that you can find at monthlyreview.org/Why-socialism - in it he describes "the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development..."
In the first paragraph he describes the problem: mind-control, as such:
"The conquering peoples established themselves, legally and economically, as the privileged class of the conquered country. They seized for themselves a monopoly of the land ownership and appointed a priesthood from among their own ranks. The priests, in control of education, made the class division of society into a permanent institution and created a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior."
It certainly is everywhere, but seems to be more concentrated in some areas.
ReplyDeleteFor example, the Illinois state legislature. Dimocrats in the afore mentioned body have attacked a proposal for a regional minimum wage that's lower in downstate Illinois than in Chicago: "But, Democrats who want a 15-dollar-minimum-wage in the state say people shouldn’t be punished for living outside the Chicago-area."
Huh. And here I thought it was the people living inside the Chicago area that were being punished.
"The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism." -George Orwell
ReplyDeleteAlbert Einstein founded the German Democratic Party, had become Nazi Germany's Public Enemy #1 by 1933 (time.com/Einstein-England), and published "Why socialism?" that you can find at monthlyreview.org/Why-socialism - in it he describes "the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development..."
In the first paragraph he describes the problem: mind-control, as such:
"The conquering peoples established themselves, legally and economically, as the privileged class of the conquered country. They seized for themselves a monopoly of the land ownership and appointed a priesthood from among their own ranks. The priests, in control of education, made the class division of society into a permanent institution and created a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior."